Word: shading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie's photography is sensitive, catching in flutter of light and shade the fluttering mood of grace and despair. As the priest, Actor Claude Laydu wears a beautiful mask of spirituality but seems to have no idea how to suggest what is going on beneath the mask; though it is only fair to admit that few actors could have done better with so exacting a part. The main trouble with the picture is its failure to transmute the superb language of the book into equivalent images. Beautiful but difficult quotations keep appearing through the blur of pictures, like...
...game went on and it got colder and colder. I was sitting in the shade and people around me started to stamp their feet. The field seemed immensely far away and apparently no one paid much attention to what was going on. People talked, shouted, and little boys ran up and won the aisles, and everyone ate. There was a vast dull munching throughout the stadium. In the fourth inning the Red Sox, who were one run behind at this point, staged a rally and with a few hits changed the score completely. The rally drove everyone to the near...
...over Chicago turned an eerie shade of yellow-brown one afternoon last week, and a menacing twilight fell over the Loop-powdery topsoil, blown in from the Great Plains, was drifting once more in the upper atmosphere. It was a fearful reminder that the flatlands of the midcontinent, which had a green and healing decade of rain in the 19405, are dry again. This spring dust storms such as have not been seen since the "black blizzards" of the 19303 are blowing in the Southwest, in western Kansas, in areas of Nebraska, Missouri, Wyoming and Colorado...
...Monroe's Doctrine have been found to mean one thing at one time and another at another time. Sacred text has been found to sanction isolationism and, within a very brief interval, interventionism and internationalism as well . . ." Meanwhile, the Lincoln legend has been bent to accommodate almost every shade of opinion. "At the same time [that] the Communists were claiming him, Lincoln was also hailed as patron saint by the Vegetarians, the Socialists, the Prohibitionists, and a proponent of Union Now-not to mention the Republicans and Democrats ... As Senator Everett Dirksen once said, the first task...
...heart of his characters, at least he manages to get under their skins. But he is at his best when he catches the pathos of his eight-anna heroine and her half-caste lover, human beings who do not belong because the color of their skin is a shade too dark...